Advances in Multimedia Information Systems: 4th International Workshop, MIS'98, Istanbul, Turkey September 24-26, 1998, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1508)

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mul timedia Information Systems (MIS’98) held in Istanbul, Turkey in September 1998. This workshop builds upon the success of the three previous workshops in this series that were held in Arlington, VA, West Point, NY, and Como, Italy. As in the past, this is a small focused workshop, consisting of participants drawn from a wide variety of disciplines (e. g. theory, algorithms, real time systems, networks, operating sys tems, graphics and visualization, databases, artificial intelligence, etc. ), all of which focus on research on one or more aspects of multimedia systems. The workshop program included 19 technical papers, three invited talks, and one panel. Of the technical papers 13 were accepted as regular papers and 6 as short con tributions. These papers cover a number of areas including: Multimedia storage system design Image storage and retrieval systems Quality of service considerations Networking support for multimedia information systems Distributed virtual environments Multimedia system architecture issues The invited talks were given by three experts well known for their work in this area. Satish K. Tripathi’s (University of California, Riverside) talk was on “Quality of Service Support for Multimedia Data on Internet”, Paul Emmerman (US Army Re search Laboratory) discussed “Visualizing the Digital Battlefield”, and Val Tannen (University of Pennsylvania) presented “Heterogeneous Data Integration with Mobile Information Manager”. The panel discussion, organized by Chahab Nastar of INRIA, France, addressed “Trends in Visual Information Retrieval. Quality of Service Support for Multimedia Data on Internet....Pages 1-1 Heterogeneous Data Integration with Mobile Information Managers....Pages 2-3 A Scalable Video-on-Demand Server for a Dynamic Heterogeneous Environment....Pages 4-17 Dynamic Skyscraper Broadcasts for Video-on-Demand....Pages 18-32 Deciding Round Length and Striping Unit Size for Multimedia Servers....Pages 33-44 Management and Rendering of Multimedia Views....Pages 45-56 NETCICATS: Network-Conscious Image Compression and Transmission System....Pages 57-68 ABR Service in ATM Networks: Performance Comparison Between BECN and Adaptive Stochastic Congestion Control Schemes with Guaranteed Minimum Cell Rate....Pages 69-81 An Admission Control Framework for Applications with Variable Consumption Rates in Client-Pull Architectures....Pages 82-97 Accurate Modelling of VBR Coded Video Sources in ATM Networks....Pages 98-109 Retrieving Images by Content: The Surfimage System....Pages 110-120 Weakly Constraining Multimedia Types Based on a Type Embedding Ordering....Pages 121-129 Balancing Workload and Communication Cost for a Distributed Virtual Environment....Pages 130-135 Network Visualization of Heterogeneous US Army War Reserve Readiness Data....Pages 136-147 A Museum-Oriented Authoring Tool....Pages 148-160 Modeling and Retrieving Audiovisual Information - A Soccer Video Retrieval System....Pages 161-173 A Flexible Architecture for the Integration of Media Servers and Databases....Pages 174-184 Sketch- Based Images Database Retrieval....Pages 185-191 An Integrated Data Model and a Query Language for Content- Based Retrieval of Video....Pages 192-198 Virtual Reality for Image Retrieval....Pages 199-204 Trends in Visual Information Retrieval (Panel Description)....Pages 205-206 Advances in Multimedia Information Systems: 4th International Workshop, MIS’98 Istanbul, Turkey September 24–26, 1998 Proceedings Author: Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg ISBN: 978-3-540-65107-9 DOI: 10.1007/3-540-49651-3 Table of Contents: Quality of Service Support for Multimedia Data on Internet Heterogeneous Data Integration with Mobile Information Managers A Scalable Video-on-Demand Server for a Dynamic Heterogeneous Environment Dynamic Skyscraper Broadcasts for Video-on-Demand Deciding Round Length and Striping Unit Size for Multimedia Servers Management and Rendering of Multimedia Views NETCICATS: Network-Conscious Image Compression and Transmission System ABR Service in ATM Networks: Performance Comparison Between BECN and Adaptive Stochastic Congestion Control Schemes with Guaranteed Minimum Cell Rate An Admission Control Framework for Applications with Variable Consumption Rates in Client-Pull Architectures Accurate Modelling of VBR Coded Video Sources in ATM Networks Retrieving Images by Content: The Surfimage System Weakly Constraining Multimedia Types Based on a Type Embedding Ordering Balancing Workload and Communication Cost for a Distributed Virtual Environment Network Visualization of Heterogeneous US Army War Reserve Readiness Data A Museum-Oriented Authoring Tool Modeling and Retrieving Audiovisual Information - A Soccer Video Retrieval System A Flexible Architecture for the Integration of Media Servers and Databases Sketch- Based Images Database Retrieval An Integrated Data Model and a Query Language for Content- Based Retrieval of Video Virtual Reality for Image Retrieval

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, MIS'98, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in September 1998.
The book presents 13 revised full papers together with six short papers and two abstracts of invited talks. Among the topics addressed are multimedia storage system design, image storage and retrieval, quality of service considerations, networking support for multimedia information systems, distributed virtual environments, and multimedia system architecture issues.